#Dead or alive xtreme 3 website series#

#Dead or alive xtreme 3 website series#

ItвЂ™s ironic that the one activity the DOA series is most known for also happens to be its least enjoyable. The most complex activity, volleyball, is easily the worst thing DOAX3 has to offer. The only highlight of these activities is that the bra strap of a girl might fall to the side-not that it makes any difference whatsoever, as the outfits leave little to the imagination as they are. TheyвЂ™re almost identical variations of the same activity, in which the objective is to push (or pull) the other girl off the platform.

Entire minigames based on QTEs alone donвЂ™t make for compelling experiences.Д«utt battles and tug-of-war are much worse. Even so, QTEs are usually designed to accompany skill-based action ( God of War, Darksiders) or provide some interaction during a cutscene ( Heavy Rain, Until Dawn). I found them to be the only engaging ones. Unfortunately, the most engaging of these minigamesвЂ“ pool hopping and rock climbingвЂ“consist entirely of QTE sequences. Volleyball, butt battles (donвЂ™t ask why Team Ninja called it that), pool hopping, tug-of-war, and beach flags make a return.ДЄside from dressing the girls up and taking their photos, one might expect for the minigames to be at the heart of the game. Previous Dead or Alive Xtreme titles offered more things to do, including jetski races, water sliding, and some of these modes could even be played in multiplayer.

But honestly, itвЂ™s just not worth the effort.ДOAX3 gets long in the tooth by the time you reach the 14 th and final day because the few activities it has are only tolerable for so long. Their satisfaction rating carries over to future sessions. The game advises you to give equal time to all the other girls for a better rating, but the only way you can accomplish that is to play the game repeatedly. I got a вЂњCвЂќ rating my first time through, having only focused on a single girl. Once the two weeks are up, youвЂ™re graded for your performance as the вЂњOwnerвЂќ and how satisfied you made the girls. At the end of each day, you can spend as much time as you want in the Casino to gamble your Zack bucks in games of blackjack, poker and roulette. Every session in the island paradise lasts 14 days, with 3 activities per day and can be as long as 2 hours of playtime. You do this by spending the gameвЂ™s currency of вЂњZack bucksвЂќ at the shop, acquired as rewards for completing and winning the various activities and minigames.ДЄt the start of each game session, you choose a girl to play as. The goal of the game, if you can call it one, is to unlock new swimsuits, lingerie and other accoutrements for one of the gameвЂ™s nine playable characters. Regardless of the real reason, gamers worldwide can import the title from overseas retailers, and so they have. A community manager for the company suggested that the reason was to avoid potential criticism over its portrayal of female video game characters. Exclusive to Japan and Asia, the game was denied a Western release despite its English localization for reasons the publisher has refused to disclose. Published by Koei Tecmo, itвЂ™s the latest title from Team Ninja that sees players venture to a paradise island for some fun in the sun. ItвЂ™s simplistic, tedious, and more importantly, not very fun to play.